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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Rebecca Lewinski wrote:
> hi all, haven't posted anything here since last spring <snip>
> Thought I'd introduce something other than politics, so here goes.


I am so proud of you, it's not everyday that infrequent poster steps in 
and calls a timeout!  Yeah Rebecca!

> I made like a bee last spring and handpollinated a lot of our fruit
> trees, since our local bees were few in number and pretty sluggish
> (I'm hoping my newly-installed mason bees will take over next year).
> Since no good deed goes unpunished, I was rewarded with a bumper crop
> of all sorts of fruit, which I either canned or took to the local
> food bank.  One of the trees turned out to be a crabapple which is
> now rewarding me with a few boxes of fruit.  I'm trying out making
> crabapple liquer with some of them and I pickled a bunch, but I still
> have dozens of pounds of fruit left.
>
> WHAT DO YOU DO WITH CRABAPPLES???
>
> I need ideas!  Points for silliness, in addition to usefulness.


Sell them to people who hunt on feed plots.
Make Jelly..
Cider vinegar??  I would think you could make it from crabapples just as 
easy as from regular apples..


> off to start another batch of crabapple likker...

Send me some...I don't normally drink, but I think I need one today.


> -Rebecca in the great NorthWet (we're expecting a deluge tonight on
> top of all the rain we've had this week)

LOL, I like that..


 **speaking of the economic
> crisis, I highly recommend a daily visit to George Ure's website,
> UrbanSurvival.  I've been following him for two years now and his
> advice is spot-on.  He's in cahoots with some guys in Olympia, WA,
> who devised a "predictive linguistics" software program.  It sounds
> like voodoo, but they get pretty good information out of it, and it
> helps to have a headsup.  It saved our 401K...

I've heard of that, amazing meld of art and science..love it.

Bev



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